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  • Usage in publication:
    • Dove Spring Formation
  • Modifications:
    • Named
    • Geochronologic dating
    • Paleomagnetics
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Conglomerate
    • Sandstone
    • Basalt
    • Tuff
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Mojave basin
Publication:

Loomis, D.P., and Burbank, D.W., 1988, The stratigraphic evolution of the El Paso basin, southern California, implications for the Miocene development of the Garlock fault and uplift of the Sierra Nevada: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 100, no. 1, p. 12-28.


Summary:

Named the Dove Spring Formation (upper of 2) of the Ricardo Group for Dove Spring Wash where unit well exposed. Rocks were formerly members 3 to 8 of Dibblee's (1967) Ricardo Formation. Type section designated between Red Rock and Last Chance Canyons, El Paso Mountains, Kern Co, CA. Divided into 6 lithologic members. Consists of conglomerate, sandstone, mudrock, chert, basalt, and tuff. Is 2000 m thick. Disconformably overlies Cudahy Camp Formation (new) of Ricardo Group. Underlies fossiliferous lacustrine silt and clay of unknown Pleistocene age (Whistler, 1968). Age is middle to late Miocene based on Clarendonian fossils, fission-track ages of 11.8 +/-0.9 Ma to 8.4 +/-1.8 Ma, and magnetic polarity correlations.

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Menlo GNULEX).


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